Keynote Address

Warning that “we’re getting closer to a ‘Thelma and Louise’ moment, when we careen off into the void,” AIA President and CEO Marion C. Blakey told attendees at AIA’s Year-end Luncheon today that “the time for real work, real negotiation and a real solution” to sequestration “is now.”

Blakey devoted most of her remarks to 300 members of the news media and industry at the association’s 48th annual Year-end Luncheon to…

Arlington, Va. – Four industry leaders participated in a panel discussion today at the National Press Club on the impacts of sequestration budget cuts on America’s economy and national security. The panel also drew attention to a letter from aerospace and defense industry CEOs voicing support for current talks and urging President Obama to continue negotiations with Congress on immediate,…

Arlington, Va. – David J. Shea, a longtime public relations practitioner with more than fifty years of experience, has been selected to receive the 2012 Lauren D. Lyman Award for outstanding achievement in aerospace communications.

Shea’s career began in 1959, when he was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force. He served in Greece, Japan, Korea, Germany and various stateside locations and held the top communications job in three major Air Force…

Statement by Marion C. Blakey, President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, in support of the on-going negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff.

Arlington, Va. – “On behalf of the aerospace and defense industry, which employs more than one million workers across all 50 states, we are encouraged that there are serious negotiations occurring between the White House and Congressional leadership to avoid our nation’s imminent fiscal cliff. It is imperative that we set…